While investigating an unrelated shooting, Alabama police stumbled upon cell phone footage of an unreported gang rape that landed a pair of Alabama college students behind bars.
NY Daily News reports:
An investigation into an Alabama shooting recovered cell phone video of a spring break gang rape that’s being described by one sheriff as the “most disgusting, sickening thing” he’s ever seen.
The shocking find showed a group of men raping a young, incapacitated woman in broad daylight in Panama City, Fla., last month while surrounded by hundreds of partygoers who did nothing to help, authorities said.
The discovery during a search of a shooting suspect’s cell phone led to the arrest of Troy University students Delone’ Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, for sexual battery by multiple perpetrators.
“She isn’t going to know,” one man is reportedly heard saying in the video as they place their hands in the woman’s genital region as she lies in a beach chair.
The video was sent by Troy police to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, and after a joint investigation they were able to identify not only the two suspects but the young woman as well, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen said.
In an interview with her, McKeithen said, she revealed she believed she had been drugged during the attack. She said she didn’t report it because she couldn’t remember enough of what happened.
WSFA reports that Martistee and Calhoun have been suspended from their university.
There’s a special place is prison for guys like this, as they’ll soon find out once the “homies” see their paperwork. Our hearts are with the victim. Share your thoughts in the comments.
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Photo: Bay County Sheriff’s Office
